From Marketing to AI Leadership: The Career Pivot Senior Women Need to See, with Rebecca Lewis

Welcome to Real Women, Real Talk, a brand new mini series inside the Career Confidence Podcast where we go behind the scenes with incredible women who are navigating career transitions, redundancies, reinvention, and the AI revolution.
No fluff. No filters. Just real, raw, honest conversations about what it actually takes to stay relevant, confident, and in demand in a world that's changing faster than ever before.
In this first episode, Georgie sits down with Rebecca Lewis, a former Head of Digital Transformation with over eight years of experience leading AI-driven change in heavily regulated industries including telco, energy, legal, and education. Bec is a single mum, a leader who's known for translating between the technical people and the CEOs, and someone who's made bold career moves without letting fear hold her back.
This conversation is about mindset, identity shifts, how to lead through AI disruption, and what it really takes to balance being a mum and having a thriving career. Bec shares what she's doing to stay ahead of the AI era, how she's raising her eight year old daughter to think differently, and the career advice she wishes she'd known five years ago.
If you've ever felt like you're behind, if you've wondered whether you can have it all, or if you're trying to figure out how to position yourself for the future, this episode is for you.
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In This Episode:
🟣 Why Bec believes if you're in the room, you're there for a reason, and how that mindset shift changed everything for her career

🟣 From digital marketing to Head of Digital Transformation: how Bec built her career across telco, energy, legal, and education, all heavily regulated industries

🟣 Why Bec went back and did a behavioral economics degree to understand why customers do what they do, and how that led her into the AI space

🟣 How Bec led a complete digital transformation at Vocus, taking the business from 20% to 50% digital first, and then did it all over again for service

🟣 Why AI isn't going to replace jobs, but it will change the way we bring ourselves to market and the things we do on a daily basis

🟣 The biggest concern for graduates: they're going to be expected to go from zero to 1,000, and why the education sector needs to prepare them differently

🟣 What Bec is teaching her eight year old daughter about AI, and why she's both embracing it and combating it at the same time

🟣 The human skills that will matter most: curiosity, analytical thinking, and not trusting data on face value

🟣 Why many CEOs and GMs are putting in AI tools just to say they're doing AI, but they're not really understanding what it can do

🟣 Bec's honest advice for women who are fearful of AI: find someone who's been playing in it for a long time and just sit down and talk to them

🟣 The AI tools Bec is using right now: Claude, Figma for wireframing, N8, and CoPilot, and why she's not a huge fan of ChatGPT

🟣 Why Bec believes women are still sitting in the fear space when it comes to AI

🟣 The old career advice that doesn't work anymore: that you have to choose between being a parent or having a career

🟣 The new bold advice: learn what your glass balls, rubber balls, and concrete balls are, and start setting some of those concrete balls down before you burn out

🟣 What Bec loves to do most: translate between the technical people in the room and the CEOs, because they both speak completely different languages
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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Bec on LinkedIn. Let her know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to stay ahead of the AI era. Tell her how you're building your confidence and positioning yourself for the future.
And if you're hiring and looking for someone to lead your AI, digital, or transformation strategy, Bec is available and ready for her next bold move. Connect with her. She's phenomenal.
The future belongs to the women who are ready for it.
Let's make sure that's you.
Georgie 💜